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2. Unit: Stone Ages Topic: Early Human Migration
EQ: How did human migration patterns influence environmental adaptations?
Olduvai
Gorge

3. The Ice Age
- About 1.6 million years ago places began to experience periods of freezing weather
transformed Earth’s geography
- the freezing periods are called Ice Ages
- ended about 10,000 years ago

4. The Ice Age Sheets of ice covered most of the earth’s land
Ocean levels dropped
created a Land Bridge: a strip of land connecting two continents
allowed Stone Age people to migrate around the world.
Beringia
Indo-Australia

5. Human Migration Patterns
Migration: The act of moving from one place to another with the intent to live.
Began approximately 2 million years ago
100,000 years ago = from East Africa to southern and northern Africa and southeast Asia.
9,000 B.C.E., humans lived on all continents of the world except Antarctica

6. Early Human Migration

7. Push vs. Pull Factors
Pull factors: Positive reasons for wanting to move to a place.
more food and water
better climate
higher wages
freedom
Push factors: Negative reasons for wanting to leave a place
lack of food or water
natural disasters
lack of jobs
wars

8. Early Humans Adapt to New Environments
Why did humans build shelters?
Migrated to colder climates.
Needed protection
When caves were unavailable they began building homes using natural resources

9. Early Human Clothing How did people adapt to new environments?
They made new clothing and new types of tools.
How did they make clothing?
They sewed animal skins together to make clothing for protection.

10. Mesolithic Tools & Technology
Occurred 10,000-5,000 Y.A.
Fishing Hooks
Fishing Spears
Bow & Arrow
Pottery
Learned to make canoes
travel on rivers and lakes
Domestication of K9’s